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Thanks - I should have searched the forum more thoroughly before asking...

I updated my VLC player from 0.8.6f to 0.8.6h, and it seems Windows 98 compatibility was once again broken. (I am getting a wxWidgets fatal error). 0.8.6f worked fine.

http://www.4players.de/4players.php/index4playerstv/4PlayersTV/8221/7458/Super_Smash_Bros_Brawl/E3_Trailer.html Just click on the red DL Button to download the WMV. Runs fine in: WMP7.1 MPC VLC0.8.4 Crashes in: VLC0.8.5 OK, I downloaded the .wmv, and it did NOT crash with VLC 0.8.5 and Windows 98 S...

Can those of you for whom it crashes give one or more specific .wmv files on the internet, so that we have something common to look at.

I am also using 0.8.5 on Windows 98 SE, so I can test.

Thanks for NOT making that clear - now I have to backstep (manually)

What are you talking about? If you don't have unicows.dll, install MSLU and you are all set.

It seems either C:\Windows, C:\Windows\System or C:\Windows\System32 will work. By default MSLU installs under C:\Windows\System, I think.

I am not experiencing problems in this regard with Windows 98 SE and VLC 0.8.5.

Yeah, I've had that unchecked already, and it doesn't help.

I have the following problem when playing audio files or CDs with VLC Media Player. Version 0.8.5, but it was the same with the previous ones. Windows 98 SE. When the audio output module is set to default or DirectX, I generally have a hissing noise in the background and the perceived quality of the...

If I uninstall and install 0.8.4a again everything works. Have you dropped support for win9x?

We haven't dropped it intentionaly but we don't really bother to test anymore. I'll try to see if this can be fixed.

Thanks for fixing the issue for Windows 98 on the 0.8.5 final release!

@ivanbuto my english is bad :P i'm from germany but originally form turkey ;) so i was in the office of my uncle. it was not Windows 98 "SE"! only Windows 98! ;) Well, that doesn't really matter. I think you need to install the Microsoft Layer for Unicode: http://www.microsoft.com/downloa...

About unicode on Windows 9x: you need to download MSLU from the microsoft web site and install it. However, this is currently a little broken in test3/test4 so don't expect it to work before the final we release (we are debugging this as i write this message). Hi, thanks for the reply - yes, I do h...

If I uninstall and install 0.8.4a again everything works. Have you dropped support for win9x? We haven't dropped it intentionaly but we don't really bother to test anymore. I'll try to see if this can be fixed. I can confirm this problem on my Windows 98 SE machine. Maybe it has to do with the unic...

Windows 98
amd xp 2000+
224 MB Ram
vlc-0.8.5-test3

vlc-0.8.5-test2 -> no problems

Hmm, I did not get that error on Windows 98 SE. Under what circumstances did you get the error?